Should nudity be banned from artwork or other historical references?

[Deja Q]

You know, from statues of David and that chick with big boobs that John Ashcroft didn't like that were created by middle-age people (who are now mostly forgotten fossils), to re-enacting ancient Greek events, complete with authentic non-sexual nudity, the right wingnuts are showing that art and creativity is a big no-no in their pastuerized, homogenized, by-the-numbers dictatorship dream of a world.

Case in point:

[boi1946]

1. If God made us in His image

and that image is the human body, why is there any reason any part of it needs to be hidden, or that we should be ashamed of? (Works on my Fundy friends, anyway...)
That stature of David is very special to me. My husband looked like him when we first met a looooong time ago.

[Deja Q]

4. Precisely.

100% spot-on in your appraisal of today's situation.

:yourock:

[WMliberal]

5. but what if that image is really realy icky?

and shows things like genitals?

[Zuni]

2. We must blindly follow John Ashcroft

[BlueJazz]

3. I agree. There has to be a good reason why....

"John Ashcroft" sounds kinda like "John theBabtist"